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 .p399 '''[[ https://www.liberty.edu/arts-sciences/faculty/nicholas-olson/ |Nick Olson ]]''' joins [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_University | Liberty University ]] faculty in 2013, "enforcer" [[ https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/ohp_godwin_r/ | Ron Godwin ]] says fall in line or leave
 .p401 remember your place, chain of command, no feedback, dumbed-down curriculum, Philosophy Department dissolved
 .p403 Liberty's goal (not) Christian academics, instead maximum efficiency, productivity, profit.
 .p403 by coming forward, Nick Olson throwing away his job
 .p404 Liberty students kind, decent, solicitous, everything the school was not (''author's words, hmm'')
 .p404 [[ https://www.liberty.edu/journal/2021/03/10/newly-renamed-standing-for-freedom-center-holds-steady-to-its-mission/ | Falkirk Center ]]
 .p405 new president [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Prevo | Jerry Prevo ]] "agenda to elect Republican politicians"
 .p405 2020 October convocation speakers [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Piper_(theologian) | John Piper ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Greear | J.D. Greear ]] video scrubbed from website for tacitly condemning Trump
 .p406 Student body president [[ https://erlc.com/profile/daniel-hostetter/ | Daniel Hostetter ]] refused to run as a Republican
 .p407-414 [[ https://www.aaronjwerner.com/ | Dr. Aaron Werner ]] refused $25K hush money
  .2020 August, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell_Jr. | Jerry Falwell Jr. ]] left Liberty U., 2021 April 15 Liberty U. sued Fallwell for $40M, breach of contract and violation of fiduciary duty.
  .[[ https://www.liberty.edu/news/press_release/liberty-university-trustees-jerry-falwell-jr-announce-settlement-agreement/ | 2024 July settlement agreement ]]
 .p414 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Falwell| Jonathan Falwell ]] senior pastor at
 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Road_Baptist_Church | Thomas Road Baptist Church ]] and campus pastor (Chancellor?) at Liberty University.
 .p418 New president [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dondi_E._Costin | Retired Air Force general Dondi Costin ]]
 .p418 Jerry Jr. angry critic ... .p419 spoiling for a fight
 .p420 Convocation speaker Ron !DeSantis, zero mention of Jesus
 .p422 student president Hostetter disappointed
 .p423 [[ https://www.standingforfreedom.com/ | Standing for Freedom Center ]] [[ https://www.standingforfreedom.com/authors/william-wolfe/ | William Wolfe ]]
 .p427 Author asked Olson about his different vision for the American Church
  . replace dominant culture war metaphor, loving others
 .p428 ''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_the_World_(painting) | The Light of the World ]]'' by William Holman Hunt
 . Epilogue
 .p430 Chris Winans at Cornerstone Church "pull, don't push". Preach godly character, play dumb on political issues, shrug.
 .p432 Winans preaches author's favorite verse: Second Corinthians, Chapter 4, Verse 18.
  .NIV: ''So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.''
 .p432 the purpose of the church is to make disciples of all the nations
  . to some evangelicals, the purpose of the church is to "own the libs" with an aggressive, identitarian conservatism.
 .p433 SBC Bart Barber codifying the efforts of Denhollander's task force
 .p433 [[ https://www.prri.org/press-release/survey-two-thirds-of-white-evangelicals-most-republicans-sympathetic-to-christian-nationalism/ | Survey: Two-Thirds of White Evangelicals, Most Republicans Sympathetic to Christian Nationalism ]]
 .p434 90% white adherents to Christian nationalism agreed "God intended America to be a new promised land" run by "European Christians". Broader sample rejected that by two-to-one margin
 .p434 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hawley | Josh Hawley ]] "Patrick Henry quote" actually from [[ https://newrepublic.com/post/174104/josh-hawley-posts-fake-quote-white-nationalist-magazine-fourth-july | 1956 magazine ''The Virginian''
 .p435 "God does not show favoritism," as Peter said, "but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right."
 .p438 Believers 89% in 2016, 81% in 2022.
 .p439 2007 no faith affiliation ("nones") 16%, in 2021 30% (rate -1% per year)
 .p439 Barna research: in the 1990s, 1/3 (33%?) of pastors under 40, 16% today
 .p440 Individual evangelicals rebranding to mainline Protestants or "ex-vangelicals".
 .p441 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games | Finite vs. infinite games ]] zero sum vs. improvement
 .p445 [[ https://redeemingbabel.org/god-doesnt-bite-his-fingernails/ | God doesn't bite his fingernails ]]
 .2 Corinthians 4:18 -- "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal".

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta 2023 Beaverton Lib 270.82 ALB

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